My Nexus 4 is definitely loud enough in calls - yours sounds like it has an issue.

In other Nexus 4 news, I've now fully disassembled one, reassembled it with a new screen, improved it, and it works!

A coworker's wife dropped & broke her Nexus 4. Well, me being me, I offered to buy it from him, and we worked out a trade involving some 1oz metal coins & some bitcoin, and I have a shiny broken Nexus 4. One eBay screen and frame assembly later, and I have the parts to /fix/ said broken Nexus 4.

It took me about an hour and a half tonight, not really knowing what I was doing but having a few guides & a lot of smartphone/laptop experience in the past. The phone is really quite nice on the inside - the only complaint I had was the heavily secured battery (adhesive), which I had to remove to swap screens. For most purposes if you're opening your phone, you don't have to remove the battery, so don't.

The other change I made while I was in there was the addition of some shims between the processor & the main aluminum (?) frame. There's a decent gap, and as investigated here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=2144652 it can be improved a good bit. I'll see how this works with the hardware mod & stock OS, but I'll likely do it to my personal phone as well since it's easy to do. I just used a few layers of aluminum foil.

I've been incredibly happy with my phone - especially undervolted on franco.kernel. It more or less totally fixes the overheating and throttling issues the stock ones have, so I'll be interested to see what my phone would do with better thermal contact AND undervolting. Run forever without getting hot, most likely.

Anyway, if you have questions about tearing into one or kernels, let me know. Happy to try to help out.

3 Min of Antatu benchmarking with breaks in between each run (proof is in the CPU usage graphs) and the damn phone reaches over 100 degrees Celsius and shuts down; the back reached a scorching 58 degrees celsius. How the hell is a phone like this released in this state!?

Mine didn't break 60C CPU under benchmarking, but I'm the ever common "rooted & undervolted" (not sure if that was a snark at my typical comment or not). Mine also held full speed throughout the tests (though I had the Performance governor selected).

I'm testing now on my wife's N4, which has the tin foil and thermal paste shim, but is running a bone stock kernel. I'm holding it in my hand for the tests under the assumption that if it gets too hot to hold, something's odd.

It somewhat rapidly throttled the CPU to 1.24ghz, but didn't significantly exceed 60C.

You're definitely throttling - you can see the CPU speed drop down to 1.24 or so on the graph.

I'm wondering if it's supposed to drop further and isn't for some reason. Have you done anything interesting with your phone?

Nope, nothing.

My phone is a second batch. By that I mean that the Nexus 4 was immediately sold out after going on sale the first time, mine I managed to snag the second time around (16gb) before it went out of stock again.

Now I have to borrow some old phone from a friend. The Nexus 4 is my first smartphone, and I really don't like it overall; this just adds to the "misery". If only the other smartphones would be priced more reasonably ($700 USD for a Galaxy S4 or HTC One!? You are out of your minds).

Anyone having gmail "sync forever but never actually send/receive things" problems? My gmail got in a state a few weeks ago where the "synching" arrow/circle was spinning forever and emails I'd send in that period (before noticing) were gone, not in drafts, not in sent items, just gone forever. It gave me the little "sending message" overlay, but the message never got anywhere. Restarting the phone didn't help, nor did stop/starting my google account sync. I had to delete the gmail app's cache and "app data", then restart the phone, and then gmail finally "wakes up". Then it just happened again today so I'm starting to get a bit nervous as the behavior seems to be increasing in frequency.

I was hoping an updated Nexus 4 would be announced at Google I/O, as happened with the Nexus 7. I cracked the screen of my xperia ray 2 weeks ago and figured the timing would be perfect. As it is, I'm sure it'll be a huge step up anyways.

A few months down the line, any cases or bumper stand out from the crowd? Should I just get the Google one or look for something else? Inexpensive is better for me at the moment.

I was hoping an updated Nexus 4 would be announced at Google I/O, as happened with the Nexus 7. I cracked the screen of my xperia ray 2 weeks ago and figured the timing would be perfect. As it is, I'm sure it'll be a huge step up anyways.

A few months down the line, any cases or bumper stand out from the crowd? Should I just get the Google one or look for something else? Inexpensive is better for me at the moment.

I've tried the Poetic bumper and a clear slim case from KaysCase. Hated the Poetic bumper; it was bulky as hell and started to come apart after a month. The KaysCase is much better, IMHO, but tends to show scratches and doesn't really cover the top and bottom edges.

I was hoping an updated Nexus 4 would be announced at Google I/O, as happened with the Nexus 7. I cracked the screen of my xperia ray 2 weeks ago and figured the timing would be perfect. As it is, I'm sure it'll be a huge step up anyways.

A few months down the line, any cases or bumper stand out from the crowd? Should I just get the Google one or look for something else? Inexpensive is better for me at the moment.

I've tried the Poetic bumper and a clear slim case from KaysCase. Hated the Poetic bumper; it was bulky as hell and started to come apart after a month. The KaysCase is much better, IMHO, but tends to show scratches and doesn't really cover the top and bottom edges.

I use the Ionic GUARDIAN Armor case.

Sure it's a bit on the large side, but it actually really feels great in hand (much better than the Nexus 4 without it) and so far my phone survived a few low level drops with it with nary a scratch.

It also keeps my hands cool by adding a barrier between them and the scorching phone.

I was hoping an updated Nexus 4 would be announced at Google I/O, as happened with the Nexus 7. I cracked the screen of my xperia ray 2 weeks ago and figured the timing would be perfect. As it is, I'm sure it'll be a huge step up anyways.

A few months down the line, any cases or bumper stand out from the crowd? Should I just get the Google one or look for something else? Inexpensive is better for me at the moment.

They kinda did announce a new "Nexus", the Samsung Galaxy S4 version from Google Play, stock android, unlocked with system updates pushed from Google.

I picked up a Nexus 7 last year and found I really prefer Android over iOS. I was hoping to replace my iPhone (3GS, I think) with a New Shiny that was reasonably priced, and jump over to T-Mobile.

(The Galaxy 4 is not "reasonably priced" IMO, also I've seen nothing to indicate it will continue to receive Android updates going forward; admittedly my research on that is somewhat slim so I could very well be wrong.)

To be honest, I'm a bit ignorant about 4g/LTE/whatever the heck they're calling it now networking. How does the current Nexus 4 stack up WRT T-Mobile's network? Should I wait for October and the rumored Nexus 5 launch?

I picked up a Nexus 7 last year and found I really prefer Android over iOS. I was hoping to replace my iPhone (3GS, I think) with a New Shiny that was reasonably priced, and jump over to T-Mobile.

(The Galaxy 4 is not "reasonably priced" IMO, also I've seen nothing to indicate it will continue to receive Android updates going forward; admittedly my research on that is somewhat slim so I could very well be wrong.)

To be honest, I'm a bit ignorant about 4g/LTE/whatever the heck they're calling it now networking. How does the current Nexus 4 stack up WRT T-Mobile's network? Should I wait for October and the rumored Nexus 5 launch?

T-Mobile's LTE network is still in its infancy, and only available in a few metros. However, their HSPA+ 42 network is very widespread, and the Nexus does support that. If you're planning on going T-Mo, I don't think lack of LTE is a dealbreaker, and the current N4 is still very attractively priced for the hardware you get (though it's no longer quite the steal it was at introduction).

T-Mobile's LTE network is still in its infancy, and only available in a few metros. However, their HSPA+ 42 network is very widespread, and the Nexus does support that. If you're planning on going T-Mo, I don't think lack of LTE is a dealbreaker, and the current N4 is still very attractively priced for the hardware you get (though it's no longer quite the steal it was at introduction).

It was almost retardedly cheap when it came out.

The Google branded S4 seems like a Nexus in all but name if you're looking for LTE and other stuff.

With those two you've got really good dynamic range from something that's excellent while being within reach for buying outright for prepaid, all the way up to a proper flagship.

LTE is a marketing term, I think it just varies too widely. Today my LTE (Verizon) ipad speed tested at 5.5/4 download/upload, then my AT&T non LTE 4S was 11/0.5 in the same spot...to me I get great (good enough?) speeds on my N4. Its rise a lot thugh (Typing in iOS blows vs swiftkey in android).

Also, non reliance on LTE means one can jump ship more easily, to prepaid AT&T or tmo, or whatever else cheap shows up in the future!

Pulled the trigger and jumped to TMobile. Loving it so far, but can't figure out how to get a certain internet radio station I enjoy (http://gsb.fm) to play back on it. Any suggestions? When I click the link it recommends, it downloads a .m3u file, but nothing seems to want to open that file.

Edit: Never mind, figured it out via entering a URL into another app. Still, wish I could trigger m3u playback.

I was wondering what tools you all would recommend to achieve the proverbial "rooting and undervolting," or otherwise improve battery life and reduce overheating without doing hardware modifications (do not feel comfortable with that).

Also, has anyone here installed CyanogenMod on their phone, and if so how is it?